This article lists information about events from the year 1751 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Francis William Drake

Events

  • Fort La Jonquière was established in 1751 by Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre on the Saskatchewan River (probably in the Nipawin, Sask. area).

Births

  • Philip Turnor, HBC inland surveyor (died 1799)

References